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As discussed already in May 2020 the future of Crossfure and this community is at risk if the situation remains the way it is.We were able to keep stuff running because we had active clans in the past which kept the activity high and supported the financial aspect of running a game server by renting clan systems.It worked great for years... until it did not work anymore.Despite this messed up situation a generous donation of a member allowed me to cover the costs till October 2020.We will reach …

Thank you. much appreciatedThe argument that FL is an old game in my eyes is invalid. Sure it is... but it still has a loyal fanbase any a steady flow of new and returning players. The task should be to make it easy for these players to get into the game any interesting enough for them to stay. That is something we really have to work on but before we have to work on the foundation of the community.To reduce the filebase in my eyes is counter productive. The content is often very much required f…

Some updates on the situation:The CF server will shut down on November 3rd.I aim to have a replacement ready somewhen between November 1st and November 3rd.This will be the first step of the whole procedure and I personally would like to push the webserver replacement somewhen after this date since it will be much more complicated. We might need to provide new launcher files manually or even re-release CF. All that takes a lot of time and work.This most likely wont be a smooth transition.The new…

The first update early November wont have an influence on the forum.The 2nd one later on might cause a downtime of a few days maybe but hopefully after that everything will return to normal.

Maybe a bit more information on the 2nd part of the Server updates.Updating the Webserver clearly will mess the CF Launchers ability to distribute CF updates and therefore it would not be possible to connect to the CF Server any longer after that Update.I have discussed this issue with Huor... or better to say we are in a running discussion.We would want to distribute a new Launcher version that has updated functions to allow players to connect to the new CF server.The plan is to auto-update it …

not a bad idea

Time for a progress updateHuor is currently working on the new launcher version and has made good progress with including the required changes for the upcoming server switches.He also changed the way how the launcher will fetch update information which will eventually result in a better and faster update progress. Some further improvements are currently being worked on and will be announced once finished.In the meantime I have been working on a new installer and mainly writing this to get some e…

yeah, that is not so easy to do but ill try to find a solution for it

Ok i managed to include an additional input page between point 5 and 6 which allows the selection of a folder.This Input page will only display if the Freelancer.exe version that the registry leads to is different from vanilla FL. If the version is correct the input simply wont display.The folder selection only will be considered valid if a Freelancer.exe actually is in that folder.So far this new input page has no further connectivity to the other functions of the installer -> work in progress.…

That would be illegal. Those hosting the iso better don't get caught. This does not only violate copyright laws, it most certainly violates the terms of use of the server provider. Just because something isn't currently available doesn't give somebody the right to make it available.

(Quote from ILIYAN)Yeah and if somebody would want to start trouble a message to the server provider would lead to very unpleasant results for that other FL community. Just saying...

Yeah would be nice... but considering that players can make many custom choices it would be impossible to do such a check on thousands of files.The earlier discussed custom FL path selection if no original FL installation is found in the default path is working now. Took the entire day to code due to various problems but it is working now.The final location of that input page changed to be between point 4 and 5 (this seems to be more logical).The version check got improved and now includes a fil…

No it is not possible to check access rights and "c:\program files" is not the only potential folder with restricted access rights. This is a highly custom setting on every PC.The solution we came up with is not different from the big installers like e.g. Steam, Epic, etc.There you also don't have a choice other than on which drive you want to install everything.IF you decide to move the folder to a different location after the installation is your personal decision and risk.

I call it a fortunate circumstance that I won't install it on your HDD.... you will.And just for clarification. Over the years I have observed people installing CF is the most ridiculous places... like the user folder... the very restricted apps folder... in x64 folders etc.To exclude one or even a few folders which could be problematic does not prevent people to find other equally problematic locations. Therefore the decision to use a drive selection instead is the best of all choices. If you d…

*sigh*hmmmk

Todays horoscope said dont make announcements and promises you cant stick to... so lets screw the horoscope.Next Tuesday the old CF server will shut down.That means I intend to get a new one this Wednesday. Setting up the hardware and OS will take 24-48h. With other words I can start moving stuff to the new server this weekend. Doing all the settings might take a bit longer. Main priority is to get the basic functions running so players can connect to the new server and have at least the basic M…

(Quote from LancelotOnCrack)yes

meh... reading through the discussion with huor I noticed that I forgot some stuff on the installer.I wanted to include the widescreen fix as internal installer function instead of running the external program. I can not find the original sources anymore so that means I have to reverse engineer the tool first.And I wanted to include an additional fonts check function.Totally forgot about this stuff.Looks like the workload just increased and I need to squeeze these tasks somewhere between.No matt…

The new server is online and most of the functions seem to work already.The CF Launcher will connect you directly with the new hardware.I hope that the config done so far will work at tomorrows server maintenance.Further structural changes and improvements will be done in the next few days.The people which volunteered for testing the new installer got a message with a download link. I managed to finish the missing functions today so in theory everything should work. However, it is best to consid…

ok looks like everything is running perfectly stableI made the mistake not to disable the dynamic market and universe update on the old server so I am currently not sure if the updates this morning were correctly working.Next test for that will be done tomorrow morning.The char backup probably failed too... will try to check and fix that now.